6 Hours of Le Mans

Not happy.

You are not the only one.

sorry tristan my car was stationary when you hit me.sorry paulo i tried to get off the track and thats when you hit me on the grass , all i can say is im sorry.

God dammit I lost connection after 3 hours and i was so consistent, I'm verry disapointed.
Carl great start mate, beautiful close battle for 45 minutes.

Disco at about 40 mins in to the race due to ISP problems. Not much more to say other than extremely disappointed.

Well done finishers

Man that was fun.

Sorry to everyone that wrecked or disco'd. The field was small enough as it was.

Great job to the Podiums and finishers.

The only way this race could have been better, would have been to have a full grid and zero discos.

The day we figure out how to create an internet connection that lets ISI create an rFactor that lets us run all 56 Cars in this race, will be an awesome day indeed.

But I wont hold my breath.

Well, despite the small field, was a great race.

Qualy was great, I was able to beat Marcos even with more wing than him :D

But race started all wrong, on warmup I forgot to adjust the race fuel so I was starting with 30 liters instead of 85. Stopped right after the pace lap to put the fuel until the limit and go. At that moment I was already 35 secs behind the leaders of my class.

Despite the lack of slipstreaming I was able every lap to take some seconds from the leaders. At the end of the first stint I was already on the tail of them. With some gamble on the tires (double stinting) was possible to take second place behind Marcos. But he had problems, not sure what, than I took the lead.

From that until the last hour was the most clean race I will ever have. Simply no spins or damage, just watching out the gaps to the other class' cars (mainly the consistent Adrian Mota). Had some cat and mouse game with Tristan (he pulls away on the straights and I catch him on the turns), quite fun :).

Last hour was a bitch. With the track losing heat my car was going awful, and I forgot totally to adjust tire pressure when I had the chance. The tires were simply not warming up, which came up with the first damages and some heartbraking moments. Luckily I had a 1 lap gap to Adrian, which gave me a more calm driving.

Absolutely no complaints about any other driver, everyone ran clean and respectful, like real pros :D.

Like Matt said, It could only be better with a bigger grid. Maybe the 6 hours was the more critical reason. Dunno how I hang up driving 6 hours solo, my shoulder is all sore :)

Thanks for the racing guys, hope to see all at Imola

Had a little bit of everything on this race. Dissapointment in qualy when pc developed some strange stutterings in spite of cleaning out of dust every piece of it last week.
After server removed a car for not receiving updates from, all came to normal but it was too late and i added a blown engine as a bonus. The mecanics' work was outstanding and they replaced it in no time. Magic :)

This race deserves special treatment and i went for more risks than i usually do. High pressure tyres, 1:3 wing and...radiator 2. I'd liked to call it the Peugeot approach:). That helped me to stay in touch with already winner of an 6 h event, Pulo Martins, and we had some close racing in 2'nd hour. At the end of the Porsche curves disaster struk for him when an yellow flag appeared and without lifting the throttle he ran out out of luck.

Beginning of the 3rd hour i settled myself in safe mode racing beeing too far either from Marcos and Mark at over 2 min behind and the fast consistent Felipe in front who was doing his qualifying laps(5 out of 6h!!!). Nothing to do about that. From now on it was a matter of bringing the car home in one piece and counting minutes remaining. Lots of them.

Once the checkered flag appeared i rushed into writing something in chat window(unspecific to me) forgeting about the people behind who were doing their final lap. Sry about that.

Certainly an experience to be repeated!

It's frustrating when race is over when you don't have any fault but it's racing.
NO WORRIES Carl Middleton!
And Mark Johnson next time you try to ruin my race at lap 1 in a long event, doing a block move, I will hunt you down! That was a stupid block move.. Why always have to be you? Can't you race like a gentleman!?!? OMG That move before Porsche curves.......